Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For months ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth ... The nighttime ritual involves excavating a hole in the sand, depositing around 80 eggs, filling the nest, leaving a large, disturbed area of ...

Loggerheads are the most common sea turtles to nest in these parts, and they’ve been dragging their 200- to 350-pound bodies ...

"Warning bells go off in my head," said Kristen Mazzarella, Anna Maria Island's turtle watch director, of dunes that have been replaced by flat sand. These remarkable animals keep ocean ecosystems ...

This past Sunday, Loggerhead Marinelife Center found its first nesting loggerhead of the season on Juno Beach.

Conservationists stress the need to protect them, with female turtles laying over 100 eggs each in pits dug in the sand, each in deep, flask-shaped nests they carve out with their hind flippers.